Here's a way to read the Bible: Sit with Bible, pen, notebook. Open to whatever book youre working on and pick up where you left off. Read the text slowly and receptively, just be open to whats there, dont try to grab understanding. Whenever a part or passage stands out to you, stops your attention from moving forward, feels especially meaningful, or otherwise glows to you, you copy that passage into your notebook. Continue like this reading and collecting passages until youve filled up most of a page or two. When you reach the end of whatever chapter in the book of study youre on, and close it. Now look at your passages. Again receptively ponder them as a group, look for themes and connections, consider relations to NT and Jesus teachings. Once you feel satisfied youve begun to understand why those passages stand out for you, form a prayer to god which is personal to you, related to the themes youve identified, write that down to fill the page. Done.